India’s Citizenship Amendment Act mirrors the US Muslim Ban’s restricted logic

Evidence

Modi blazed the ideological pathway for the enactment of India’s own “Muslim Ban”—which immediately restricted Muslim immigrants from bordering Afghanistan, Bangladesh, and Pakistan from becoming Indian citizens, but had far broader implications. Like Trump’s travel ban, the CAA marked the apex of an Islamophobic vision that was rapidly becoming reality in India. — Khaled A. Beydoun, The New Crusades_ Islamophobia and the…, 471

Categorization

• XREF: Directly parallels the reader’s framing question of states borrowing Islamophobic techniques; connects to Iftikhar’s analysis of the US ban.
• QUESTION: What exactly does the CAA restrict, and how does it lay groundwork for stripping existing citizens’ status?